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The Paper -Shell Pecan and 
Satsuma Orange Orchards 

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Offer an Assured Income for Life and a 

Home for Retirement Adjoining 

a City of 75,000 People 

on the Gulf Coast 



NO CO-OPERATIVE SCHEME 

NO IRRIGATION PROJECT 

NO SPECULATION 

NO ISOLATION 

NO STOCKS 

NO BONDS 



You Can Acquire a Home in the Land of 
Sunshine, Roses, Culture and Refine- 
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PREFACE. 

WE will present to you in this booklet vital 
facts in regard to production of paper- 
shell pecans and Satsuma oranges. 

The facts and figures given have been secured 
from the most reliable and authentic sources pos- 
sible — among these being numerous bulletins and 
reports issued by the United States Department 
of Agriculture through its experimental stations 
— reports of meetings of National and State hor- 
ticultural and nut growers' organizations and 
various publications dealing with these subjects. 

We have also included valuable information 
relative to supply and demand, markets, importa- 
tions, carefully gathered from successful growers 
and horticulturists and from government statis- 
tics. 

As very little is known by the general public in 
regard to the exact possibilities of paper-shell 
pecans and Satsuma oranges, we have endeavored 
to bring as much information as is possible in 
this little booklet to the reader in a concise and 
interesting manner. 

MOBILE FARM LAND COMPANY (INC.), 
Mobile and Chicago. 



Mobile Farm Land Co. (Inc.) 

514-516 Commercial National Bank Bldg. 
CHICAGO 

Telephone Randolph 2343 



Mobile Office 
Ground Floor, Battle House 



DIRECTORS 

Louis J. Davis, Manager Mobile Gas Company - Mobile 

Theodore K. Jackson, President Mobile Electric Co. Mobile 

Charles D. Willoughby, Cashier First Nat'l Bank - Mobile 

George Fearn, Jr., Geo. Fearn & Son, Real Estate Mobile 

Edward W. Faith, Attorney-at-Law - - - Mobile 

Harry O. Hanson, Cashier Mobile Gas Company - Mobile 

Benjamin S. Cowen, Mobile Farm Land Company - Mobile 

OFFICERS 
Louis J. Davis ------- President 

Theodore K. Jackson - Vice-President 

Harry O Hanson Secretary 

Benjamin S. Cowen - General Manager and Treasurer 

Louis C. Irvine - Sales Manager 

E. K. Dyar - Farm Superintendent 

(Recently in charge of Ex-Vice-President Fairbanks' extensive 
farming operations in Illinois) 



FRISBIE & GEIS 

Commercial National Bank Building 
CHICAGO 



THE PAPER-SHELL PECAN 




And How It Has Developed From the Original 
Wild Nut to a Remarkable Com- 
mercial Success. 

|HE first record of the pecan is dis- 
covered in the history of the early 
French settlers of this country. 
Bienville, a French explorer, land- 
ing on the shores of Mobile Bay in 1699, found 
one of the staple foods of the Indians — a palat- 
able nut growing wild in the dense forests around 
this beautiful bay. 

This nut — now known as the common pecan — 
became one of the first articles to be exported to 
Europe by the early colonists and since that time 
many people in the South have been profitably 
engaged in the gathering and sale of the wild 
pecan. 

Speaking of the tree itself — it is essentially an 
American tree — growing luxuriantly as a forest 
tree in the alluvial bottom lands of the southern 
Mississippi Valley — rarely being found north of 
Mason and Dixon's line. 

It is a member of the hickory family (hicoria 
pecan), being extremely hardy, resembling in 



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general appearance the oak. An idea of its age 
can be gained from the fact that several large 
trees recently cut down showed by the annual 
"growth rings" that they were over 600 years 
old. These trees were still bearing and there is 
a notable tree in Mexico, which is five feet in 
diameter, bearing over a ton of nuts annually. 

The pecan has a root system radiating from 
an exceptionally large tap root that goes deeply 
into the ground, drawing up moisture from the 
subsoil, making the tree proof against lack or 
excess of surface moisture. 

As the pecan blooms late in the spring, the 
buds are never here injured by frosts, and a 
notable feature is the almost absolute freedom 
from insect pests and diseases. 

Everyone is familiar with the small wild pecan, 
from one-half to three-quarters of an inch long, 
with its hard shell, and the thick and bitter inner 
partitions of the nut. 

But, of the paper-shelled pecan, little is known 
to the average Northerner. Its development has 
been restricted almost entirely to the central 
Gulf Coast and this development has all occurred 
within the memory of this generation. 

About forty years ago Colonel W. R. Stuart, a 
retired wealthy merchant of New Orleans living 
at Ocean Springs, Miss., became interested in the 



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The Late Colonel W. R. Stuart 
Pioneer of the Pecan Industry 



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development of the wild pecan nut and began ex- 
perimenting — with the idea of eliminating the 
hard shell and thick bitter inner partitions and 
producing a nut that would rival the English 
walnut in palat^bleness. 

Colonel Stuart noticed early in his investiga- 
tions throughout the South that occasionally a 
tree was found growing under favorable condi- 
tions that produced the kind of nut he had in 
mind. 

He selected the best specimens of these nuts 
and planted them, caring carefully for the young 
trees — but you can imagine his disappointment 
when these trees reached the age of bearing at 
the end of seven or eight years — to find that the 
nuts produced were not like those he had planted, 
but were only ordinary wild pecans. 

Realizing that the ideal pecan could not be 
successfully developed from seed, Colonel Stuart 
resumed his experiments from another angle. 

He went back to the trees from which he had 
secured his seed nuts — and by taking scions or 
buds from these exceptional trees and grafting 
tkem onto seedling stock — he was able to secure 
the same excellent nuts — and solved the problem 
of propagation. 

From this time on, many experiments were 
made by Colonel Stuart, Mr. Theo. Bechtel of 



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Ocean Springs, A. G. Delmas of Scranton, Miss., 
Oscar Oliver of Louisiana, C. E. Pabst of Ocean 
Springs — originating nearly all of the standard 
varieties of the paper-shelled pecan in the Mobile 
district among which are the Stuart, Mobile, 
Frotscher, Alley, Delmas, Success, Pabst, Russell, 
Lewis, Hovens, Jewett, etc., etc., many of the 
varieties being named after their originators. 

These men have worked out the details of 
propagation, cultivation and fertilization past the 
experimental stage to a state almost reaching 
perfection, until today we have the paper-shell 
pecan — with a shell so thin that it can be crushed 
in the palm of your hand and the inner partitions 
are nothing but tasteless tissues. 

It is as large as the average English walnut, 
but on account of the thin shell there is a much 
greater proportion of meat to each nut — and the 
meat being exceedingly sweet and rich and of a 
delicate texture, forty or fifty nuts making a 
pound, as compared to one hundred and twenty 
to two hundred of the ordinary pecans. 

The reader will see from this that while the 
early growers who followed Colonel Stuart's first 
efforts and tried to grow the nuts from seed, 
failed, after waiting eight or ten years for the 
trees to produce the ideal nuts, yet with the study 
of its culture and the growing popularity of 



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this nut, the pecan tree has been developed to 
the hardiest, longest-lived, and most dependable 
and productive nut bearing tree known. 

THE COMMERCIAL SUCCESS OF THE 

PECAN NOW A CERTAINTY. 

The Experimental Stage Is Past. 

The United States Department of Agriculture, 
the State Agricultural Experiment Stations, and 
the success of nurserymen and private growers 
have lifted the growing of pecans in a commer- 
cial way up to a permanently established basis. 

Nuts are becoming more universally recog- 
nized every day as a staple article of diet. 

Many prominent physicians and sanitariums 
are recommending raw foods chief of which are 
nuts as an exclusive diet. 

Many restaurants in this country serve nothing 
but raw foods and nuts, and more and more the 
public is being educated to the consumption of 
these nutritious foods. 

With the continual destruction of our natural 
forests the nut bearing trees are growing scarcer 
each year. 

It would require the planting of large groves 
every year in order to keep pace with the destruc- 
tion of our wild nut trees to say nothing of 
coping with the continually increasing demand. 



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Manufacturers of candies, confections and table 
delicacies are opening up new sources of con- 
sumption almost daily. 

Importation of nuts into the United States has 
more than quadrupled during the last decade, 
the value of the importation amounting to over 
$15,000,000 annually. 

Taking these facts into consideration, can there 
be a doubt in your mind that the growing of 
paper-shell pecans can be anything but a tre- 
mendous success? 

When the people of this country import and 
pay heavy duty on $15,000,000 worth of nuts every 
year, it is apparent that we have been overlook- 
ing one of the greatest opportunities for a suc- 
cessful commercial proposition that has ever been 
offered. 

The Age of Bearing, Yield and Price. 

The paper-shell pecan trees are produced 
from seed — the nurserymen beginning with the 
planting of the nut, and produces what is known 
as a seedling. 

This seedling he carefully cultivates and cares 
for until it is two years old, when he root-grafts 
or buds into the seedling stock, scions or buds 
taken from a tree of known variety, cutting off 
the seedling trunk and diverting the entire 



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strength of the two-year-old root into the grafted 
or budded section, which now becomes the main 
trunk. 

When this young tree has had a three-year 
growth, under proper care and cultivation, it is 
ready to transplant to the orchard. This is what 
is commonly known among nurserymen as a 
"three-year-old" grafted or budded tree, although 
in reality it is a five-year-old tree (dating from 
the planting of the nut), and if it has been grown 
under right cultural methods, it will invariably 
be larger and stronger than an average five-year- 
old seedling tree. 

It is a much more expensive method to plant 
nursery grown trees than to begin with the nut, 
but it saves years of time and it is an absolute 
guarantee of desired results. In fact, it is the 
only safe and sure method to pursue. 

If good, thrifty, ''three-year-old" grafted or 
budded trees of the best varieties, grown in the 
nursery as above described, are transplanted to 
the orchard where soil and climatic conditions 
are suitable to the variety selected, and then 
properly cultivated, fertilized and cared for, they 
will yield, dating from the time they are set out 
in the orchard, as follows: 



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6th year 10 pounds 

7th year 25 pounds 

8th year 45 pounds 

9th year 70 pounds 

10th year. 100 pounds 

These figures are not estimates but are the 
tabulation of averages secured from figures given 
by scores of nurserymen, horticulturists and 
private owners of pecan groves. 

Even considering that the constantly increasing 

demand for paper-shell pecans, which cannot 

be bought in the North •for less than $1 per 

pound, will not sustain the high price, we must 

believe it will at least assure a stable price. Let us 

put the price of the fancy paper-shell pecan down 

to the present retail price of ordinary seedling 

pecans — 25 cents per pound — and we secure the 

following figures — based on the planting of 18 trees 

to the acre and a low average on yield and bearing 

age — from a five-acre orchard of paper-shell pecans : 

After Pounds Income Income Income per 

planting tree, per tree, per tree. per acre. five acres. 

6th year 10 $ 2.50 $ 45.00 $ 225.00 

7th year 25 6.25 112.50 562.50 

8th year 45 11.25 202.50 1,012.50 

9th year 70 17.50 315.00 1,575.00 

10th year 100 25.00 450.00 2,250.00 

We have seen nuts on a one-year-old tree in the 
nursery row, and know of a tree four years old 
from the bud which bore forty pounds. 




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These, however, are exceptional cases. Seedling 
trees 25 years old often bear from 300 to 500 
pounds. As indicating the extraordinary value of 
such a tree, we might mention one owned by Mr. 
J. W. Laurendine in Mobile County from which 
he sold in one season 400 pounds of nuts- for 
$400.00. He also received in the same season 
$200.00 for wood to be used for the purpose of 
budding other trees. 

You understand, of course, that the pecan is 
a large spreading forest tree and in its later life 
requires a great deal of space, although in the 
first twenty-five years it will not occupy all 
space allotted to it — when the trees are set out 
fifty to fifty-five feet apart each way. 

It is, therefore, economical and profitable to 
combine with the cultivation of the pecan some 
sort of tree requiring little space and which will 
yield a profit from these waste spaces. 

In all the range of horticulture, no more ideal 
tree for this purpose can be found than the 

SATSUMA ORANGE. 

The Satsuma Orange has been introduced into 
this country from Japan — it being a variety of 
the Mandarin — an orange grown in the northern 
part of Japan where there is danger of frost, 



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under conditions similar to those found in the 
Gulf Coast of Alabama. It is budded on the 
hardy, frost-proof native stock of the citrus 
trifoliata. 

This produces a dwarfed tree about eight or 
nine feet in height that seldom shows signs of 
life until early in the spring, thus reducing the 
danger of frost to a minimum, and it has often 
withstood a temperature of 10 degrees above zero. 

The Satsuma orange is slightly smaller than 
the ordinary sweet orange, slightly flattened, 
colored a deep yellow, and of a sweet and de- 
licious flavor. 

It has a loosely adhering rind and the seg- 
ments are easily parted. This feature gives it the 
name of the "kid-glove orange." 

Probably the greatest marketing advantage of 
the Satsuma is the fact that it ripens very early — 
in September and October — before any other 
varieties are on the market and naturally meets a 
large demand at good prices. 

In addition to this early-ripening feature, it 
will hang on the trees until along in January, 
and unlike any other orange, it can be safely left 
on the tree until thoroughly ripe and then shipped 
without danger of decay, thus making it one of 
the most dependable shipping crops. 



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The Satsuma is easily cultivated, comes into 
bearing in about three years after planting, con- 
tinuing to bear for a generation, and is notably 
free from disease and insect pests. 

The pecan trees are planted fifty-two and one- 
half feet apart each way and half way between 
them we plant Satsuma orange trees, alternating 
the rows of pecans with rows of Satsuma oranges, 
and in this manner two hundred and thirty-four 
of these trees will be planted in each five acre 
tract. 

On account of the fact that the Satsuma orange 
has such a sparkling and lively taste and can be 
put on the market long before any other variety, 
it naturally brings a high price — the average 
return being from 15 to 25 cents a dozen wholesale. 

However, assuming the unusually low price of 
12 cents per dozen and basing the yield of each 
tree far below the average, we give herewith a 
table of additional profits obtainable from plant- 
ing 47 Satsuma orange trees to each acre or a 
total of 234 trees to each five-acre pecan orchard, 
including a column showing the total profits from 
both the paper-shell pecan and the Satsuma orange 
trees. 



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After 



In- 
Oranges come 



per 
tree. 



planting 
trees. 

6th year 

7th year 

8th year 

9th year 
10th year 

This table is 
probable results 



300 
400 
500 
500 
500 



per 
tree. 
$3.00 
4.00 
5.00 
5.00 
5.00 



Income 
per 
acre. 

$141.00 
188.00 
235.00 
235.00 
235.00 



Income 

per 

five acres, 



$ 



Combined 

crop pecans 

and oranges, 

five acres. 

> 930.00 

1,502.50 

2,187.50 

2,750.00 

3,425.00 



705.00 

940.00 

1,175.00 

1,175.00 

1,175.00 

not an estimate of possible or 
It is the very low average of 
actual, tabulated results covering many years' 
experience under all conditions — and in many in- 
stances the figures have run a great deal higher 
than any we have quoted. 




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A Five-Acre Tract 

Dots show Pecan Trees, crosses indicate Orange Trees. Pecan Trees 

52 l / 2 feet apart. 91 Pecan Trees and 234 Orange Trees 

planted in each five-acre tract 




Speaks for Itself 




Meat of the Pecan. Actual Size 



ADVANTAGES OF PAPER-SHELL PECANS 
OVER APPLES, PEACHES AND PEARS. 

Paper-Shell Pecan Or- 
chards 



are not seriously injured 

by drouth; 
are rather benefited by 

heavy rains; 
survive all such fight frosts 

as we have ; 
have no serious diseases 

or vital enemies when 

bearing; 
require little care, labor or 

attention when they begin 

to bear; 

are not perishable, can be 
gathered and marketed 
w h e n convenient and 
prices are highest and be- 
ing shipped in bags or 
sacks the expense of box- 
ing and crating is saved. 

live and bear vigorously for 
hundreds of years; 



are profitable to a much 
greater degree than any 
other nut or fruit; 



provides a constantly in- 
creasing income through- 
out the life of the owner 
and the lives of his sur- 
viving wife, children or 
other descendants or de- 
pendents ; rendering him 
independent for life and 
protecting his posterity 
against poverty and want. 



Apple, Peach and Pear 
Orchards 

are killed by drouth; 

are ruined by heavy rains; 

suffer from the intense cold 
of the North; 

are destroyed and often 
completely exterminated 
by parasites and pests; 

require constant care and at- 
tention and considerable 
labor, including spraying, 
pruning, etc. 

are perishable, harder to 
handle, must be picked 
promptly, boxed, crated 
and wrapped, and if there 
is a "glut in the market" 
the returns are nil. 

and, even when supple- 
mented by side crops the 
returns are no earlier than 
from pecan orchards so 
supplemented ; 

yield precarious profits and 
even under the most fa- 
v o r a b 1 e circumstances, 
less than the paper-shell 
pecan ; 

even if they attain their 
natural age, yield an in- 
come for only a compara- 
tively few years, which 
may be cut " still shorter 
by the destructive activi- 
ties of parasites and other 
pests, which may at al- 
most any time destroy 
your orchard and your in- 
come. 



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THE MOBILE PLAN 

And What It Means to You. 

The Mobile Farm Land Company has, after 
careful investigation, selected, with the advice of 
horticulturists thoroughly familiar with all dis- 
tricts in which pecans and Satsuma oranges can 
be profitably grown, a large tract of land near the 
city of Mobile and will plant this land, won- 
derfully adapted for the purpose, with pecans and 
Satsuma oranges and keep the trees under expert 
care for five years, turning over the five-acre 
orchards to the purchaser at the end of that 
time. 

On each five acre tract will be planted 91 
three-year-old grafted or budded paper-shell 
pecan trees of selected varieties, and 234 one- 
year-old Satsuma orange trees budded on hardy 
frost-proof native stock of the citrus trifoliata. 

During the first five years of the trees' growth, 
when expert attention and care are needed and 
when practically all risks are encountered, the 
orchards remain under our care, we taking all the 
risks upon ourselves. After that period the risk 
is lessened fully 95 per cent and only until then 
are we willing to turn the five-acre orchards 
over to each purchaser with a guarantee of five 
years' growth and the health of the trees. 















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Of course, the Mobile Farm Land Company 
may still be relied upon at the end of the five 
years to care for the orchard and market the 
crops on a percentage basis, if the purchaser 
wishes them to do so, as it will still be occupied 
in the immediate vicinity with its own orchards 
and farming industries. 

As we have stated previously, the selection of 
all trees and the methods of cultivation will be 
under the supervision of a reliable pecan expert, 
and the Mobile Farm Land Company will have 
under his direction horticultural experts in both 
the raising of pecans and Satsuma oranges, and 
marketing them. 

But more important than this — we have ar- 
ranged with Mr. E. K. Dyar, lately superintend- 
ent of ex- Vice-President Fairbanks' large Illinois 
farms, to take charge of these orchards, and 
he will constantly supervise our vast farm and 
orchard enterprises and greatly assist in the 
building up of an ideal farming and orchard 
community as a suburb to the city of Mobile. 

Mr. Dyar is a man of wide agricultural experi- 
ence, of progressive ideas, technical knowledge 
and enthusiasm for this work, and taking all in all, 
no better man could be found in the length and 
breadth of this land to take charge of such an 
undertaking. 



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The Suburban Location of Our Property. 

It is hard to realize that the opening of the 
Panama Canal which will revolutionize the ship- 
ping routes of the world, is only three or four 
years distant. 

A glance at the bird's-eye view in this book- 
let will show at once that Mobile is destined to 
be the chief port for Panama business, especially 
for the enormous coal traffic which is to grow 
out of that enterprise. 

The cheapest tidewater coal in the world will 
be found at this port, through the expenditure 
of $15,000,000 by the United States Government 
to make available to navigation the great Ala- 
bama coal fields. Private capital to an equal 
extent is developing dock and other facilities to 
meet the demands incident to the opening of 
the Panama Canal. 

The orchards of this company will be adjacent 
to the Mobile Farm Land town site of Dawes, 
near to the City of Mobile, already a city of 
75,000 people, counting its legitimate residence 
area, and affording every facility for commerce, 
professional and other business, education and 
amusement. 

Within reach of these properties are the finest 
fishing grounds of the south; the famous oyster 



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beds of the Mississippi Sound and every outing 
feature which can appeal to the sportsman. 

The county of Mobile has now in hand a spe- 
cial fund of $500,000 to be expended in extending 
its magnificent hard roads which have made this 
section famous. 

The chief of these highways will pass directly 
through the company's lands, connecting the pub- 
lic highways of Mississippi with those of Mo- 
bile. This improvement will furnish to our prop- 
erties a system of automobile highways of ines- 
timable value from every point of view. 

The orchards will be so laid out as to front a 
60-ft. Boulevard which will be amply shaded at 
the sides by the trees within each grove. 

Near the orchard preserve will pass our 
farm land branch of the Mobile and Ohio Rail- 
way, connecting with the Government Street Car 
line in the City. Over this branch will be oper- 
ated suburban motor service for both express and 
passengers, while regular freight service over the 
M. & O. will also be afforded. 

Soil and Climate. — Other Living Advantages to 
be Enjoyed. 

An analysis of the soil of our orchard reserve 
shows it to be what is known as the Orangeburg 
Sandy Loam, underlaid with a porous clay sub- 



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soil. According- to government experts, this is 
the most ideal soil for pecan and citrus culture, 
and for all manner of staple crops, such as cab- 
bage, potatoes, oats, corn, melons, figs, peaches, 
small fruits and garden truck. 

The rainfall averages about 56 inches the year, 
distributed so evenly that this section has no dry 
season. 

Temperature seldom gets below freezing and 
rarely rises above 90. Our experience and 
that of hundreds of settlers from the far north, 
is that this temperature, modified as it always is 
by the strong gulf breezes, is not anything like 
as trying as temperature 10 degrees lower in the 
north, while the mild air from the Gulf Streams 
assures winter conditions most ideal. 

Unlike all the coast lands where elevation and 
drainage are not satisfactory this land is free from 
insect pests. 

A plentiful soft water supply is found at a uni- 
form depth of about 40 feet, and analysis shows 
this water to rival in purity the famous Wauke- 
sha and Poland Springs waters. 

This region has been lately the subject of the 
strongest commendation for its possibilities in 
poultry raising. Scores of poultry farms have 
been moved to this section, where an all year 
around green feeding season assures ideal condi- 



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tions, not only for raising and fattening, but for 
egg production. 

The proximity of these lands to the great city 
of Mobile and to its famous Spring Hill College — 
only 7 miles 'away — should be carefully consid- 
ered by every purchaser with family responsi- 
bilities. The health of this plateau is a matter 
of medical record for a hundred years, attested 
by this college, which has never lost a student 
from malarial diseases. 

Not only will these groves be extremely valu- 
able on account of their income, but within five 
years the advance of the city suburbs to the west 
over this high plateau will enhance their value 
tenfold. 

The Mobile Farm Land Company can be re- 
lied upon to undertake any other improvement of 
the purchaser's orchard which he may desire. It 
will build him any sort of a home, and undertake 
to have it cared for in the absence of the owner. 

When it can be said of a section that it will 
produce with less labor and greater certainty all 
the necessities of life and most of its luxuries, 
that its conditions for health, comfort and pleas- 
ure are unexcelled, and that its desirableness for 
residence purposes is accentuated by the prox- 
imity of a great and growing city, what more can 
the investor require when he has as an assurance 



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for the safety of his investment the absolute trust- 
worthiness of an association of the leading citi- 
zens of that city who are to undertake to plant, 
develop and care for his investment, and who es- 
teem the investor's visits or sojourn at his or- 
chard one of the chief advantages to Mobile, 
growing out of the orange and pecan grove under- 
taking. 

Cost and Contract. 

The company will develop any tract or tracts 
of land purchased, plant as described herein with 
three-year-old Pecan and one-year-old Satsuma 
orange trees, and for a period of five years from 
the date of purchase pay all taxes, keep up all 
necessary improvements, replacing all trees that 
may die or be destroyed, fertilize, cultivate and 
give proper care to all such purchased tracts in 
every particular. 

All this will be done at the company's expense, 
and under the direct supervision of its horticul- 
turists. It can readily be seen this is a service 
that no man unless himself an expert and con- 
stantly on the ground will give to his own prop- 
erty. Further it is needless to say this is a serv- 
ice no man could afford to pay for if the whole 
cost fell upon his individual property, excepting 
of course, his holdings were very large. The 
company maintains at all times a highly perfect- 



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ed and competent organization for the develop- 
ment of its own property, and for this reason it 
can develop orchards for others in connection 
therewith at a cost far below that for which an 
individual could ever do it, or have it done. 

A revenue producing estate, the first two crops 
for which will more than reimburse him in full 
for all the money invested, will be passed into 
the hands of the purchaser at the end of the five 
year period. Payments may be ananged so as 
to extend over a three year period if desired. 

The company enters into a contract with the 
purchaser which is liberal and equitable, cover- 
ing as it does a period of five years. It espe- 
cially provides for two serious contingencies 
which are of deep concern to every purchaser — 
financial embarrassment and death. The com- 
pany agrees with the purchaser in case of death 
to carry out its part of the contract in every de- 
tail. If so desired by the heirs all further pay- 
ments are waived until after the five year period, 
proceeds from the crops of the 6th and 7th year 
will be applied on deferred payments until stais- 
fied, any balance will then be paid to the heirs. 
In any event the property will be deeded over to 
the heirs or assigns at the end of the seventh 
year. 

The company further agrees if at any time 



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after two years the purchaser finds himself finan- 
cially unable to carry out his part of the con- 
tract, to return to him at a stipulated rate all 
moneys which he has paid on his contract. 

The company agrees that the purchaser may 
live upon the property during the five year pe- 
riod of development if he desires, but must in no 
way interfere with the cultivation of the trees. 

The company further agrees that after the five 
year period should the purchaser not desire to 
maintain a continuous residence on the prop- 
erty, to act as his resident agent for either a 
percentage of the crops or a cash consideration, 
caring for the property in a first class manner, 
cultivating, harvesting and marketing the crops, 
and in every way looking after his interests. 
None of this property will be sold to people who 
would in any sense of the word be considered un- 
desirable. This is a feature that is important 
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CONCLUSION. 

This short sketch has been confined to a 
branch of horticulture — Pecans and Satsuma 
oranges — essentially a gentleman's occupation. 

After the first five years the labor is light. 
There is no mad rush of work in this industry 
at any season of the year. The harvest season 
is never hurried on account of weather or market 
conditions. The pecans when ripe fall off the 
tree to be gathered at leisure and can be mar- 
keted when convenient. It is not necessary to 
gather the Satsuma orange when ripened. It can 
be allowed to hang on the trees for months, to be 
picked and shipped at the convenience of the 
owner. There is always a market for both the 
pecans and oranges, and the freight rates are 
always low. There is little expense attached in 
the shipment of these crops, as no refrigeration 
is necessary for either. Pecans can be shovelled 
into a box car like grain and the oranges can be 
crated and shipped in a very inexpensive man- 
ner. It must be appreciated that this is an im- 
mense saving over ordinary fruit. If you will 
investigate our proposition carefully, we are very 
sure you will become the owner of a five or ten 
acre tract, and that you will recommend the in- 
vestment to your friends, whom you will desire 
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TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL AT 
MOBILE. 

The following figures are taken from reports 
made by the United States Government: 
Average Temperature for Past 15 Years. 

January 51.0 

February 53.6 

March 61.4 

April 66.9 

May 74.4 

June 79.8 

July 80.8 

August 80.5 

September 77.4 

October 68.1 

November 59.5 

December .53.3 

Annual average 67.2 

Average Rainfall for Past 15 Years. 

January 4.51 inches 

February 5.77 inches 

March 5.29 inches 

April 3.40 inches 

May 3.68 inches 

June 3.00 inches 

July 6.10 inches 

August 6.36 inches 

September 2.02 inches 

October 3.09 inches 

November 4.74 inches 

December 4.74 inches 

Annual average 56.59 inches 



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YOU ARE INTERESTED IN 

The commercial possibilities. 

The suburban location. 

The healthfulness of climate and water. 

The bungalow we build for you. 

The home for retirement. 

The boating, sailing and outing features. 

The Mobile Bay with its fish and oysters. 

The insurance feature of our contract. 

The absolute guarantee against loss. 

The responsibility and reliability of the com- 
pany. 

MOBILE FARM LAND CO., 

514-516 Commercial National Bank Bldg., 

Chicago. 



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